Lilongwe

City · 1902 CE · in Sub-Saharan Africa

Capital of Malawi (1975–today).

Mbabane (1902 CE): Capital of Eswatini (1969–today).
N'Djamena (1900 CE): Capital of Republic of Chad (1961–today).
Muscat (c. 1900 CE): Capital of Sultanate of Muscat and Oman (1900–1946), Sultanate of Oman (1970–today).
Nairobi (1899 CE): Capital of Republic of Kenya (1963–today).
Lusaka (1905 CE): Capital of Zambia (1967–today).
Abidjan (1898 CE): Capital of Republic of Côte d'Ivoire (1961–1983).
Chania (c. 1898 CE): Capital of Cretan State (1898–1907).
Dodoma (1906 CE): Capital of Tanzania (1996–today).
Asmara (1897 CE): Capital of State of Eritrea (1993–today).
Port Vila (c. 1907 CE): Capital of New Hebrides (1907–1980), Vanuatu (1983–today).

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Nelson Mandela (1918 CE – 2013 CE): Anti-apartheid leader imprisoned for 27 years who became South Africa's first Black president in 1994 and shared the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize.
Livingstone’s crossing of Africa (1853–1856 CE): David Livingstone travelled from the upper Zambezi to Luanda on the Atlantic and then east to Quelimane on the Indian Ocean, sighting Victoria Falls in 1855; the crossing made him famous in Britain.
Pretoria (1855 CE): Capital of South African Republic (1856–1899), South Africa (1932–today).
Burton and Speke’s expedition to Lake Tanganyika (1857–1859 CE): Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke travelled inland from Zanzibar along the caravan route and became the first Europeans to reach Lake Tanganyika. On the return Speke went north alone and reached Lake Victoria, which he took to be the source of the Nile.
Dar es Salaam (1862 CE): Capital of Tanzania (1964–1996).
Bujumbura (1871 CE): Capital of Republic of Burundi (1963–2019).
Stanley’s search for Livingstone (1871–1872 CE): Sent by the New York Herald, the journalist Henry Morton Stanley led a caravan from Bagamoyo to Ujiji on Lake Tanganyika, where in November 1871 he found David Livingstone, of whom little had been heard for years.
Johannesburg (1886 CE): Founded in 1886 after the discovery of gold on the Witwatersrand, the world's richest gold field; it grew into South Africa's largest city.